An American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He has written 10 novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road (2006). His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For All the Pretty Horses (1992), he won both the U.S. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.